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It Gets Better
Perelman Theater
Saturday, November 8
7:30pm
GET TICKETS: ALL TICKETS $21!
Written and directed by Speak Theater Arts’ Liesel Reinhart, It Gets Better is infused with the dynamic musical energy of The Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles and the internationally recognized branding of the It Gets Better Project™. It Gets Better provides a performing arts response to the difficult issue of bullying, one of the most challenging issues among today’s young adults and adolescents.
The It Gets Better Project™ was founded in September, 2010, when the first it gets better video was uploaded to YouTube, igniting a worldwide phenomenon. That video offered a desperately needed message of hope to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth. It urged them to tough it out through the bullying and other challenges that confronted them in their teenage years, and described the positive future they could experience as adults. It told them that no matter how difficult things may be today, it gets better. Today, the mission of the It Gets Better Project™ is to communicate to LGBT youth around the world that it gets better, and to help effect the changes necessary to make it so. The team at the It Gets Better Project collaborated with the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles in bringing the it gets better message to the stage.
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On Nov 8 @ItGetsBetter will inspire @kimmelcenter following a week of community residency. All Tix $21, Learn more: http://kimmelcenter.org/events/?id=4951
.@kimmelcenter, @GMCLA, @ItGetsBetter for a week-long community residency and culminating concert Nov 8! Learn more: http://kimmelcenter.org/events/?id=4951
OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS
Community Partners include:
- ACLU of Pennsylvania
- Action Aids
- Anna Crusis Philadelphia Woman’s Choir
- Association for Suicide Prevention - Philadelphia
- Athlete Ally
- CHOICE Hotline
- City of Brotherly Love Softball League
- Delaware Valley Legacy Fund
- Dr. Damon Constantinides
- Equality Forum
- Falcons Soccer Club
- GALAEI
- Generocity.org
- GO! Athletes
- HRC Greater Philadelphia
- Mazzoni Center
- Out Philadelphia Athletic League (OPAL)
- OUT@Uarts
- Out4STEM
- PA Student Equality Coalition
- PFLAG Philadelphia Chapter
- Philadelphia Community Access Media (Philly CAM)
- Philadelphia FIGHT
- Philadelphia Gay Men’s Chorus
- Philadelphia Union
- Philadelphia Voices of Pride
- Rainbow Chorale of Delaware
- Reading Terminal Market
- Sister Cities Girl Choir
- State Representative Brian K. Sims
- TABU Lounge and Sports Bar
- Tavern on Camac
- The Attic Youth Center
- The Leeway Foundation
- The Library Company of Philadelphia
- The Tyler Clementi Foundation
- The William Way LGBT Community Center
- UPENN LGBTQ Student Union
- Wolf Performing Arts Center
- Women’s Therapy Center
- Young Involved Philadelphia